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title: Three days against the northern blast on-flying To Fate obedient and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three days against the northern blast on-flying To Fate obedient and the Will Divine, They reached, what time the crimson eve was lying On Alba’s isles, and ocean’s utmost line, That huge sea-strait whose racing eddies boil ’Twixt Erin and the cloud-girt headland Moyle. Who acts: northern blast, lak
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 57

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Three days against the northern blast on-flying To Fate obedient and the Will Divine, They reached, what time the crimson eve was lying On Alba’s isles, and ocean’s utmost line, That huge sea-strait whose racing eddies boil ’Twixt Erin and the cloud-girt headland Moyle.

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**Who acts:** northern blast, lake, crimson eve, That, racing eddies · **What happens:** fly, fate, divine, reach, lie, strait · **To what, where:** obedient, utmost line, isles, Twixt Erin, headland

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (northern blast, lake, crimson eve, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:9:58
# text = Three days against the northern blast on-flying To Fate obedient and the Will Divine, They reached, what time the crimson eve was lying On Alba’s isles, and ocean’s utmost line, That huge sea-strait whose racing eddies boil ’Twixt Erin and the cloud-girt headland Moyle.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	To	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Fate	fate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	obedient	obedient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	Divine	divine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
28	On	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Alba	Alba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
40	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
44	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	eddies	eddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	boil	boil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
48	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	Twixt	Twixt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
53	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	girt	girt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
56	headland	headland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
57	Moyle	Moyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | the northern blast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fate** | infinitive | the northern blast *not said here* | obedient |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **divine** | future | the northern blast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach** | past | lake | ocean's utmost line |  |  | day |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lie** | past · progressive | the crimson eve |  |  | Alba's isles | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on isle=Location |
| 6 | **strait** |  | That |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **boil** | present | racing eddies | Twixt Erin |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent erin=Patient |
| 8 | **girt** | infinitive | racing eddies *not said here* | headland |  |  |  | cloud *compound* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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